Getty ImagesWe found out earlier Monday that the Bills and wide receiver Stevie Johnson reached agreement on a new contract and now some of the details are coming to light.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the deal is for five years and $36.25 million. The $7.25 million average annual value places Johnson on a tier below the top receivers in the game, which seems right given the differences between him and guys like Calvin Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald. It’s also a good deal below the franchise tag of $9.4 million.
Per Schefter, the contract guarantees Johnson $19.5 million and calls for Johnson to receive $24 million over the first three years of the deal. There’s no detail as to the nature of those guarantees, i.e. whether they are fully or partially guaranteed and how much is to come via a signing bonus. Johnson’s deal could look different once that information comes to light.
Either way, Johnson made himself a fair chunk of change on Monday.
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5 more years of losing for Stevie, I’m beginning to think he enjoys losing.
What in God’s name???
Doesn’t anyone learn? SJ is in fact a diva WR but on top of that he’s a dumb diva WR.
What a colossal waste of good cap space.
Good for Stevie, now stop with the selfish celebration penaltys..
I guess god doing him like that ended up working out fairly well
Beggers can’t be choosers. This is a deal that makes sense for both sides. Well done.
Straight to the Casino homie.
Hallelluah,Hallelluah,Hallelluah,Hallelluah,Hallelluah!!!!Go Bills Go!!!! Congratulations Steve Johnson!!!
Pretty solid deal for both sides.
Stevie just needs to grow up and scale it down when it comes to touchdown celebrations.
this guy seems like a good receiver with a lil lack of concentration here and there, which maybe he can fix now!
Love this contract.
Good for both Sides. Keep it up Bills.
Congrats to Stevie J.
Man this kid coming up in this league trying to get paid.
Bills certainly didn’t get a home town discount. I guess when you are horrible for a decade the bills were lucky just to get him to sign at all.
not to shabby for a guy with a couple of huge drops, in huge games. He is still a solid reciever though.
How much will he wind up giving back to the league for dumba$$ penalties?
Mo money mo problems
Good deal for both sides. He gets a pretty long contract with good money over those years and the Bills get the right value for a WR who hasn’t hit the top of his prime yet.
DeSean Jax better realize this is the best case scenario he’s going to get from any team also…
Sorry Bills but that wasn’t worth it.
Stevie Johnson went to sign the contract, a life changing event, but dropped his pen.
Football isn’t a game, it’s a meat grinder. For 8 million a year call me hamburger. Too bad paying a WR means you can’t pay the guys who work the hardest equally, linemen.
To bad he doesn’t have a decent QB to throw him the ball.
Haha are you serious? This clown is so overrated.
From 7th round pick to $36.25 million dollars
Jauron actually did something right!
About what he’s worth, good deal for both.
He should be paying the team some of that back for being an idiot and costing his team penalties after he scores….. like the guy but had some serious drop and dumb celebration penalties.
Love to see a young star get his chips.
On behalf of the Afc east, we would like to thank you buffalo for the next 5 years
Lotta money for someone with stone hands.
Poor Stevie. I guess they could have slapped him with the tag, but I think the open market would have yielded a better contract. Good luck to him! Keep ripping Revis a new one.
Love the deal for both sides. Not Larry Fitzgerald money but only a few receivers warrant that. The issue with the Bills is giving a Fitzgerald deal to Fitzpatrick.
I guess can live with that. I’m still annoyed by all the stupid celebration penalties.
At least they didn’t waste a franchise tag on him.
How much per drop does that work out to?
At least Fitz is happy about it.
From Stevie’s Twitter:
https://twitter.com/?tw_e=media&tw_i=176683528535289856&tw_p=tweetembed#!/StevieJohnson13/statuses/176683528535289856
Appropriate $$$ IMO …
That’s 23% lower than avg. of top 5 so that should put him in higher end #2 or low end #1 money …
Good deal! Good timing … now don’t go to sleep on eve of FA this year Nix!
That leaves the Bills free to use the franchise tag on… um…. well on…
huh.
I mean, there’s no rule that you have to have a franchise player on your team, right?
Great signing for one of the better WRs in the league
Just ask derelle revis what he thinks of covering johnson
Did Welkers price just go up ?
I’d for one like to thank Stevie and his agent for taking a good deal. Johnson could have held out for a lot more just to end up with the Bengals (or any other crappy team). This looks more and more like a guy who wants to remain in Buffalo and really become a team leader.
Congrats, Stevie – I’m heading off to Mohawk Town.
Great contract OBD, It works out for both sides. Johnson is a very good WR and I am happy to have him for 5 more years. 7th round draft pick–> Diamond in the rough. Go Bills!!!!
wez99 says:
Mar 5, 2012 11:29 AM
On behalf of the Afc east, we would like to thank you buffalo for the next 5 years
Why would you like to thank Buffalo? Do you enjoy losing?
i’d much rather give stevie this deal than give a money hungry vincent jackson 8 or 9 mil a year to watch his play deteriorate. stevie is most valuable to the bills and his numbers justify this contract
Damm Buffalo fans be happy you have a good young WR,, yeah he might have dropped a few passes, as he gets older and more games under his belt he will get better and boo hoo about the celebrations, you gotta be in the endzone to do them so at least he was doing something right, if you didnt sign Stevie then who would you have to rely on?
Haven’t been this excited for this Bills team in a long time. This is the first time in years that I see the players really building chemistry together. Look for Fitz-Johnson destroying opposing defenses next year. Rumor has it Darrelle Revis is crying in his bed right now. GO BILLS!!!
Looks like a fair deal.